He has a photographic memory for phone numbers. He can dial a touch tone phone using the same hand technique as telephone operators.
He is the godfather of Melanie Griffith's son, Alexander.
He is the godfather of longtime friend Richard Sylbert daughter, Daisy Alexandra Sylbert-Torres.
He is the only person to be nominated for 4 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Directing, Lead Actor & Screenplay) in the same year in two-times. First for Heaven Can Wait (1978), later for Reds (1981).
He was co-respondent in the 1966 divorce case involving the dancer-actress Leslie Caron and the producer Peter Hall.
His performance as Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is ranked #32 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains. This is ranking he shares with Faye Dunaway, who portrayed Bonnie Parker.
His political views expounded by the "new" Jay Bulworth in the movie Bulworth (1998) are really his own.
His two favorite cartoon characters are Daffy Duck (who is his all time favorite) and Johnny Bravo.
In the films he produces, he usually plays characters who lose something important by the end of the film.
Is allergic to oysters.
Lived with Julie Christie from 1967 to 1973.
Lives on famed "Bad Boy Drive" a.k.a. Muholland Drive in Beverly Hills, CA. Nicknamed so because its famed residents are bad boy actors Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, and Beatty.
Long planned a biopic of Howard Hughes to produce and star in. It has yest to be made and it's uncertain whether or not Beatty has actually completed a script or if he also plans on directing it.
Once worked as a cocktail lounge pianist.
Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007). (Wise/Robbins and the Coens actually won the award).
Premiere Magazine ranked him as #29 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).
Received ten offers of football scholarship after graduating from high school. He turned them all down.
Received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award at The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) (TV), presented to him by his friend and neighbor Jack Nicholson.
Recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, along with Elton John, Joan Sutherland, John Williams, and Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
Rumored to have been the subject of Carly Simon hit, 'You're So Vain'.